guttle vs raven what difference
what is difference between guttle and raven
English
Etymology
Attested since about 1650, from gut (“belly”) + -le. Possibly influenced by guzzle.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɡʌ.t(ə)l/, [ˈɡʌ.ɾl̩]
- Rhymes: -ʌtəl
Verb
guttle (third-person singular simple present guttles, present participle guttling, simple past and past participle guttled)
- (archaic, transitive, intransitive) To eat voraciously; to swallow greedily.
- Synonyms: gorge, gobble, gormandize, wolf down
- c. 1692, Dryden, Translations From Persius, The Sixth Satire of Pursius:
- His jolly brother, opposite in sense, / Laughs at his thrift; and lavish of expence / Quaffs, crams, and guttles, in his own defence.
- 1890s, Poverty Knock:
- I know I can guttle, when I hear my shuttle, go poverty, poverty knock.
- To swallow.
- 1692 Sir Roger L’Estrange, Fables Of Aesop And Other Eminent Mythologists:
- The fool spit in his porridge, to try if they’d hiss : they did not hiss, and so he guttled them up, and scalded his chops
- 1692 Sir Roger L’Estrange, Fables Of Aesop And Other Eminent Mythologists:
- (Britain, dialectal, Northern England) To make a bubbling sound.
- (Britain, dialectal, Scotland) To remove the guts from; eviscerate.
Derived terms
- guttler
Translations
See also
- devour
- gorge
- gobble
- gulp
References
- Samuel Johnson (15 April 1755), “To GU′TTLE”, in A Dictionary of the English Language: […] In Two Volumes, volume II (L–Z), London: […] J[ohn] and P[aul] Knapton; […], OCLC 1637325, column 1.
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English raven, reven, from Old English hræfn, from Proto-West Germanic *hrabn, from Proto-Germanic *hrabnaz.
Pronunciation
- enPR: rāʹvən, IPA(key): /ˈɹeɪvən/
- Rhymes: -eɪvən
Noun
raven (countable and uncountable, plural ravens)
- (countable) Any of several, generally large and lustrous black species of birds in the genus Corvus, especially the common raven, Corvus corax.
- A jet-black colour.
Derived terms
- Australian raven (Corvus coronoides)
- brown-necked raven (Corvus ruficollis)
- Chatham raven (Corvus moriorum)
- Chihuahuan raven (Corvus cryptoleucus)
- common raven (Corvus corax)
- dwarf raven (Corvus edithae)
- fan-tailed raven (Corvus rhipidurus)
- forest raven (Corvus tasmanicus)
- little raven (Corvus mellori)
- New Zealand raven (Corvus antipodum)
- northern raven (Corvus corax)
- pied raven
- raven-messenger
- relict raven (Corvus tasmanicus boreus)
- Somali raven (Corvus edithae)
- Tasmanian raven (Corvus tasmanicus)
- thick-billed raven (Corvus crassirostris)
- western raven (Corvus corax sinuatus)
- white-necked raven (Corvus albicollis)
Translations
Adjective
raven (not comparable)
- Of the color of the raven; jet-black
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English ravene, ravine, from Old French raviner (“rush, seize by force”), itself from ravine (“rapine”), from Latin rapīna (“plundering, loot”), itself from rapere (“seize, plunder, abduct”).
Alternative forms
- ravin, ravine
Pronunciation
- enPR: răvʹən, IPA(key): /ˈɹævən/
- Rhymes: -ævən
Noun
raven (plural ravens)
- Rapine; rapacity.
- Prey; plunder; food obtained by violence.
Translations
Verb
raven (third-person singular simple present ravens, present participle ravening, simple past and past participle ravened)
- (transitive, archaic) To obtain or seize by violence.
- (transitive) To devour with great eagerness.
- (transitive) To prey on with rapacity.
- The raven is both a scavenger, who ravens a dead animal almost like a vulture, and a bird of prey, who commonly ravens to catch a rodent.
- (intransitive) To show rapacity; to be greedy (for something).
- 1587, Leonard Mascall, The First Booke of Cattell, London, “The nature and qualities of hogges, and also the gouernement thereof,”[1]
- […] because hogs are commonly rauening for their meat, more then other cattel, it is meet therefore to haue them ringed, or else they wil doe much hurt in digging and turning vp corne fieldes […]
- 1852, Elizabeth Gaskell, “The Old Nurse’s Story” in The Old Nurse’s Story and Other Tales,[2]
- They passed along towards the great hall-door, where the winds howled and ravened for their prey […]
- 1865, Sabine Baring-Gould, The Book of Were-Wolves, London: Smith, Elder & Co., Chapter 8, p. 114,[3]
- The Greek were-wolf is closely related to the vampire. The lycanthropist falls into a cataleptic trance, during which his soul leaves his body, enters that of a wolf and ravens for blood.
- 1931, James B. Fagan, The Improper Duchess, London: Victor Gollancz, 1932, Act 3, p. 237,[4]
- On one side the great temple where you can gather the good harvest—on the other a dirty little scandal that you’ve nosed out to fling to paper scavengers who feed it to their readin’ millions ravening for pornographic dirt.
- 1587, Leonard Mascall, The First Booke of Cattell, London, “The nature and qualities of hogges, and also the gouernement thereof,”[1]
Related terms
- ravener
- ravening
- ravenous, ravenously, ravenousness
Further reading
- Corvus corax on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- Verna
Dutch
Etymology 1
Borrowed from English rave.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈreːvə(n)/
Verb
raven
- to (hold a) rave, to party wildly
Inflection
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈraːvə(n)/
- Rhymes: -aːvən
Noun
raven
- Plural form of raaf
Anagrams
- ervan, varen
Middle Dutch
Etymology
From Old Dutch ravan, from Proto-West Germanic *hrabn.
Noun
rāven m
- raven
Inflection
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Alternative forms
- rāvene
- rāve
Descendants
- Dutch: raaf
- Afrikaans: raaf
- → Sranan Tongo: rafru
- Limburgish: raof
Further reading
- “raven”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “raven”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN
Slovene
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *orvьnъ.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ràːʋən/
Adjective
rávən (comparative rávnejši, superlative nȁjrávnejši)
- even, level
Inflection
Alternative forms
- ravȃn (archaic)
Derived terms
- rávnost
Further reading
- “raven”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran